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I have done this on a photocopier - I was lucky though as I had a straight paper feed with the manual paper feed tray.

I bought my laser printer for $45, and it came with a couple of new...

I have had good success printing direct to Kodak Premium picture paper.

A hint if it all goes to hell and needs to be cleaned, Prepsol, the solvent used to clean cars before being sprayed does a...

Hey guys, thanks for that - will give the Applied Automation a call.

Regards

Ben

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I was just looking at the ballscrews available at McMaster-Carr (to go into a planned very small cnc mill I am building from scratch). Originally I was thinking to go with acme thread and...

Arvid - that makes sense really.... Maybe the guy I asked meant rolled not ground (when I phoned I asked for ground acme thread). I have not been able to find anything other than rolled acme threaded...

Gerry, What happened to the image link that was originally posted? And why does the forum replace some web addresses with ***********'s?

I was thinking of the V thread from an accuracy point of...

Okay, I have found some good quality stainless V threaded rod and some delrin at good prices. I have attached a drawing of how I see preload being applied - can anyone say if this is a suitable...

Hey, thanks for the help. I think I will use Delrin and a good quality ground acme leadscrew. The steppers I have are a good size already, and if it just means I will be going slower, then thats ok...

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I am wanting to build a small router for doing pcb's etc and am trying to decide between ballscrews and backlash compensation. I have priced ballscrews locally to be just short of $1k aud for...

Hey, nevermind - got it sorted.

I went into the Setup Composite Print Layers and selected 'All Off' then 'Used On' and then unchecked the Silkscreen Overlay, which has fixed it. Oh yeah, and I...

Hrmm, I could be a little confused then...

The attachment is the design just lifted straight from Protel. When I print it prints the whole lot, when I uncheck the silkscreen option in the print...

I have drawn up a circuit in the PCB section of Protel, I am now trying to print it off. I can get the whole circuit including the silkscreen to print, or I can get the tracks only to print. I cannot...

Hey, thanks for that. Very useful.

Regards

Ben

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I have some surplus steppers that are 6 wire. What is the easiest way to suss out the wiring?

If I randomly hook 3v up to the wires can I fry anything? What am I looking for when I do...

Nah, no standards used at all. About the only thing standard in it is the steel grade (EN25) and the thread pitch (M48x2). Works well though, and does what I ask of it...

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I made a ER40 collet chuck. I got the dimensions for the collets from a Vertex catalogue. Yes, the angle on the rear of the collet is 8° and the front angle is 30°....

No I don't have diagrams yet, they appear to be a proprietary type stepper, ie no diagrams will be available unless IBM release them as part of the tech service manual. The steppers are actually...

I am currently looking for steppers to suit a 3"x10" cnc lathe I am building. I have found a pair in a old IBM dot matrix printer. The specs are 2.46V, 1.82A, 1.8 deg/step. They are fairly large in...